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of Beza; Buchanan's Psalms (a great deal of such material was also given); a Dictionarium Latinobritannicum, fol., whose provenance is not indicated; Chelidonius, Institution of Christian Prince (various others of the type given); a Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia;6 Smyth, T., De Recta Pranuntiatione Linguae Graecae; Valerius, Grammatica; (Linacre and Lily given, also Manutius, Latin Phrases); Corderius, De Corrupti Sermonis Emendatione; Erasmus, Colloquia; Plutarch and others Apophthegmata, Gr. and Lat.; Faernus, Fabulae; Edwardes, R., Bake of very Godly Psalmes and prayers.
These were bought. But numerous school items besides those referred to incidentally above are marked as having been gifts. Of these, grouped together are Erasmus, llpothegms (pp. lxi-lxiii), Virgil, Valerius Maximus, Plautus, Caesar, Suetonius Tranquillus, Melanchthon's Dialectica, Alciat's Emblems, Virgil's Bucolics; Murmelius, Tabulae; Stobaeus, Sententiae, Vol. II; Historiae illustriorum rerum memorabilium libellus; Riccius, De Imitatione; Justin in English; Ascham, Scholernaster; Underdt wne, llethiopian History; Aesop in English; Corderius, Exempla de latino declinatu, also De Syllabarum Quantitate, Epistolarum Familiarium liber2, Lat. and Fr. (Cicero), Colloquiorum Scholasticorum; Ovid, Metamorphose figures. cum Tetrastichis 7oannis Posthii. This list has been consecutive, with only a few items interjected, mostly French. Another small group of gifts we have already noticed. These groupings are thus of themselves significant. It will be noticed that Virgil's Bucolics and Ovid's Metamorphoses have put in their appearance, as would be expected, and that various fables, colloquies, etc. supplement the earlier work.
Our next list of straight school purchases begins at the top of a page, with an item dated January i8, 1576. (p. xlv). The Greek is now getting under way. There was the Grammatica graeca cum annotationibus.elntesignani, ye, which was Clenardus, the most frequently used in England of the Greek grammars. It was supplemented by 2 1lIphabetum graecum.r For Greek texts,2. Luciani quidam Dialogi, 8'; 2 Tabulae Cebetis, gr.; and 2 Plutarchi wept wat& n' ays yiis. Item, Isocrati.r orations. Plutarch also appeared in French for moral and linguistic purposes, Opuscules de Plutarche gall., fol. For the Latins, the
S Ascham had recommended after Sturm's selections from the epistles "some plaine Oration of Tatlie, as, pro lege Mani!: pro ...Ischia Poeta, or in those three ad C. Cites" (Ascham, Scholematter (1570), p. sr, a copy of which James had). Sturm himself had recommended Pro Lego Manilia or Pro t. Ligario for the fifth class from the top out of nine.
' Two of James' puns recorded by Young give some idea of his Greek pronunciation (p. Ixzv).
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